ix, 211 pages, 24 pages of plates : 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

I. Introduction -- 1. Inscriptions and manuscripts -- 2. Epigraphy and palaeography -- 3. The development of scripts and script styles -- 4. Semitic languages and scripts -- II. The rise of Semitic script -- 1. Background -- a. Sumerian cuneiform writing -- b. Egyptian hieroglyphic script -- c. The Hittite "hieroglyphic" script -- d. The Cretan script -- e. Undeciphered scripts in Syria-Palestine -- 2. The beginnings of the alphabet -- III. The south Semitic scripts -- IV. The west Semitic scripts -- 1. The Phoenician script -- 2. The Hebrew script -- 3. The Aramaic script -- 4. Comparative aspects of the Phoenician, Hebrew and Aramaic scripts -- 5. The scripts of Israel's neighbors -- 6. The change from Hebrew to Jewish script -- V. The development of the later Aramaic offshoots -- 1. Aramaic writing in the Iranian world -- 2. The Aramaic script in the East -- a. The south Mesopotamian branch -- b. The north Mesopotamian branch -- c. The Palmyrene-Syriac branch -- 3. The Nabataean script and the rise of the Arabic script -- 4. The Jewish script -- VI. The antiquity of the Greek alphabet

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